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An incident later, however, would prompt Vitale to pay a visit to the doctor. The doctor told Lorraine that he was talking about correcting movement in the eye so that it worked with the good eye, Vitale said.
It seems the caller wanted to get Vitale off the air because he couldn't stand looking at Vitale's eye. He also is the 2020 recipient of the NCAA President's Gerald R. Ford Presidential NCAA award, joining such recipients as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Robin Roberts, Grant Hill, and Condoleezza Rice. In Kindergarten, a young Vitale lost the vision in his left eye after an accident with a pencil.
In 1959, Vitale began his first coaching job - in football as well as basketball - while teaching at Mark Twain Elementary School in Garfield, NJ.
He eventually became the head coach at Garfield High School for one season, which was followed by a successful stint at his alma mater East Rutherford High School. I mean these are uneducated people with a heart of gold and a doctorate of love," Vitale said.
Recent honors
In 2019, Vitale joined the ranks of Howard Cosell, Keith Jackson, Curt Gowdy, and Vin Scully, when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports during the 2019 Sports Emmy Awards.
Same thing the other night at Carolina-Florida State. Mike (Krzyzewski) got me the tickets," Vitale explained.
Dick Vitale To Join 2024 B+C Hall of Fame Class
Dick Vitale, basketball analyst and philanthropist, will be inducted into the B+C Hall of Fame in September and will receive the Humanitarian Award for his tireless efforts to combat cancer, among other causes he fights for.
“I am thrilled and honored to be selected as a member of this prestigious hall of fame,” Vitale said.
And my mother had nine brothers and sisters and my father had nine brothers and sisters. He is also a regular contributor to ESPN The Magazine, as well as Basketball Times and USA Today.
Dick Vitale: Oh baby, what a life!
By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Dick Vitale is living the dream and then some, baby!
"I've lived a life that's exceeded any dream, I mean, come on, making a living doing something you love," the 80-year-old former coach and current college basketball analyst said Thursday evening.
Dickie V, as he is known in basketball arenas throughout the country, was in Salina Thursday to speak at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce's annual banquet.
Vitale credits his parents for guiding him on his life journey.
In my bedroom, is a beautiful giant-sized picture of my mom and dad and me sitting on their lap when I was about three or four years old, and every day my day starts with me saying a prayer to them, thanking them for their love. My mom would always say, and my dad, 'never, ever, believe in can't. He is a spokesman for Hooters restaurants, DiGiorno pizza and Airborne Athletics Dr.
Dish basketball training machine.
Vitale has also appeared weekly on ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike in the Morning" show and additionally pens an ESPN.com article once a week. Goes in the pile and my goal this year is $5 million for kids battling cancer," he said.
The website includes his new book, "Dick Vitale's Mount Rushmore of College Basketball," which is billed as including "solid gold, prime time performers from my four decades at ESPN."
Vitale offers advice
Offering advice to not only young people, but all people, Vitale said, "Find something you love doing."
Again, he related how his parents inspired him to do what he loved.
Vitale talked about how his parents worked in a factory.
"My mother would soak coats with a bunch of other ladies and my father pressed the coats in a hot factory, pressing those coats," Vitale said.
Vitale graduated from Seton Hall University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. The V Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for cancer and Vitale hosts the annual Dick Vitale Gala in Florida, benefiting the foundation. She went home and told him what the doctor had told her, but he wasn't interested.
Still, the marketing campaign led to an offer for Vitale to do a sitcom, which he declined.
In late 2007, Vitale was diagnosed with lesions on his vocal cords.